ARFD BUREAU CALLS FOR MARKING 15th ANNIVERSARY OF ARMENIAN INDEPENDENT STATEHOOD BY CONCRETE WORK AND RESPONSIBILITY

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Jul 3 2006

YEREVAN, JULY 3, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. "This year the
whole Armenian people is going to mark the 15th anniversary of its
independent statehood.

We will mark this holiday with the consciousness of this holiday’s
exclusiveness and resolution to improve, enrich and strengthen our
All Armenian home," the July 3 statement of the ARF Dashnaktsutiun
Bureau read.

"Independence is a supreme value and everybody’s duty is to make
Armenia a center of justice, democracy, solidarity," the ARFD Bureau
declared.

The statement authors emphasize that "the Armenia-Spyurk third forum
to be held on September 18-20 in Yerevan coincides with the jubilee
of our state," "which is one more occasion to unite our potential
and to make it serve for political, economic, spiritual and cultural
development of the Homeland, to solution of national problems, to
overcoming with dignity the challenges resisted by the Armenians and
Armenia in the 21st century."

Mentioning that this time there is a concrete goal of strategic
importance on the forum agenda – to find funds and to develop
especially the border regions of Armenia, to improve and to modernize
rural infrastructures, to assist solution of the population’s social
problems, the ARFD Bureau calls on all structures, units, individuals
of Armenia and Diaspora, first of all its organization circles and
members to take an active part in the implementation of this program,
to assume a concrete commitment.

"With this step we should also prove that we can have a strong,
independent country and homeland, we can become an influential
presence in the large family of peoples. Let’s mark the anniversary
of our independent statehood by a concrete work and responsibility,"
the ARFD Bureau declared.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress